Creation Bean Bags

I've been planning activities for Advent and decided to make more textured bean bags for the girls. They still really enjoy the number textured bean bags! I saw a tutorial about Creation bean bags and knew I had to make them for Izzie and Mac. The only store I went to on Black Friday was JoAnn Fabrics...they had fabric on sale for $1.29 a yard....and, yes....I bought a lot! I tried to get a variety of textures....

Day 1: Light and Dark
The yellow side is a baby cotton material and the black is satin.

Day 2: Clouds and Water
I found this great blue fleece with white clouds! For water, I used a real shinny blue material with white sparkles, which are hard to see in the picture due to the flash.

Day 3: Plants and Trees

The green plant side is a fuzzy and the brown side is a harsh and scratchy.

Day 4: Sun, Moon and Stars

The sun side is a thick fleece and the stars and moon side is baby cotton...I really didn't like that Curious George was on the fabric, but it was the only fabric I could find that had both moons and stars.

Day 5: Fish and Birds
For fish, I used a very shiny metallic blue and for feathers, a white feathery material.
This is Izzie's favorite bean bag....it's probably the best textured bean bag!

Day 6: Man and Animals
I used a multicolor brown fabric to represent man and a cute animal print for the other side.



Day 7: God Rested
On one side, there's white felt to represent a pillow and on the other side is planet Earth, for God rested and observed what he had created.

The girls are having so much fun with the bean bags, and they were really quick and simple to make!

(I tried to use a different format to help reduce the length of the post....apparently, I've done something incorrect! Please, excuse me...the text is not lined up with the appropriate pictures.)

Tiny Talk Tuesday

Izzie recently turned 4 years old, but lately will only answer to the name "Hailey" and insists that she is 5 years old.

Izzie: Mommy, I'm 5 years old!

Me: No, you're 4 years old.

Izzie: How old are you?

Me: (Pause) 30....

Izzie: How did you get so old?

Izzie loves pretending that she has "really big problems", so she can call Team Umizoomi for their help!

Izzie: Mommy, I can't find my phone!

Me: Oh, no! That's a really BIG problem!

Izzie: No, that's not a really big problem....that's just a short problem.

To share or read, please visit Tiny Talk Tuesday hosted by Not Before 7.

Kite Flying Fun!

Over the weekend, we went to a Kite Festival, which was so much fun!

The girls enjoyed decorating their kites!

And flying them, too!


A little help from Dad...

Flag Ceremony...

Playing under the gigantic American flag!

Don't you just love our family photo??

Oh, how I wish for just one family picture with all of us looking at the camera and smiling....maybe in 10 years!!

I Spy Shapes...

For our stART project this week, we focused on shapes. First, we read Shapes, Shapes, Shapes.

This is a great book to help discuss that there are shapes all around us and to help describe what type of shapes we see in our environment.

Then, I printed off these super cool Shape Viewers (laminated, glued Popsicle sticks to the back to make sturdier, then added one more for the handle).

As we read, Eye Spy Shapes, we played the game too with the new shape viewers!! Izzie had so much fun discovering all the different shapes around the house.

To see more stART activities, visit A Mommy's Adventures.

Kid's Book Festival

We headed out to our local PBS Kid's Book Festival and had a blast, even with the 90+ degree weather in September, which is very rare in our neck of the woods!

It was a nice surprise when we got there and EVERY child received a new book! Wow! Mac found a very colorful book, Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! Izzie is very interested in the weather these days, so she was very excited to find, What Will The Weather Be Like Today?

They were also passing out used books to the children and had a variety of craft stations.

Izzie making a bookmark.

Of course, there were many PBS characters too!

(And, wouldn't you know it...my batteries died....ahhh, I only was able to take 4 pictures!!!)